Prisoners escape through hole in north Mexico jail

AFP: Prisoners escape through hole in north Mexico jail: "Fourteen inmates have broken out from a jail after escaping through a hole in a wall in Mexico's most violent northern border state of Chihuahua, justice officials have said.
A vehicle charged the metal gate of the Aquiles Serdan Social Rehabilitation Center to pick up the prisoners, said a statement from the state attorney general's office.
The office updated the figure from 12 to 14 escaped prisoners late Monday, and said that five had been caught, along with three suspected accomplices, following air and ground searches by police.
An anonymous source from the office said that the prisoners had exchanged gunfire with their guards, while spokesman Carlos Gonzalez denied that they were armed.
Numerous convicted drug gang members from the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez have been transferred to the rehabilitation center but Gonzalez said the escapees were not highly dangerous and had been detained for robbery and assault."

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